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Friday, April 22, 2011

I put my Markerbot away a while ago and haven't used it because it was not able to make items big enough and it took a lot of time to look after - lots of tinkering, and not much making! Makerbot now have a newer plastruder called the Mark 6. Unfortunately, it seems to be continuously out of stock! Also, I think I may have to upgrade my electronics board if I do upgrade, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.

3D printing

"Here's something for you!", and with that I was given a large, heavy cardboard box from a company called Makerbot. A weekend later, I had built a low-cost 3D printer from the parts in the box and I was printing my fist object, a 2cm cube! Excitement! Here's what happened and what is continuing to happen.